The IEEE 802.17 media access protocol for high-speed metropolitan-area resilient packet rings.

The resilient packet ring (RPR) IEEE 802.17 standards is under development as a new high-speed technology for metropolitan backbone networks. A key performance objective of PRP is to simultaneously achieve high utilization, spatial reuse, and fairness, an objective not achieved by current technologi...

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Publicado en:IEEE Network : the magazine of global information exchange 18, 3 (2004).
Autor Principal: Ping Yuan
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:English
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